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In the first month, the month of Nisan, in King Ahasuerus’s twelfth year, Pur (that is, the lot) was cast before Haman for each day in each month, and it fell on the twelfth month, the month Adar.

Verse ConceptsCasting LotsPurimMonth 12

The royal scribes were summoned on the thirteenth day of the first month, and the order was written exactly as Haman commanded. It was intended for the royal satraps, the governors of each of the provinces, and the officials of each ethnic group and written for each province in its own script and to each ethnic group in its own language. It was written in the name of King Ahasuerus and sealed with the royal signet ring.

Verse ConceptsProvincesSealing The MessageAlphabet

Letters were sent by couriers to each of the royal provinces telling the officials to destroy, kill, and annihilate all the Jewish people—young and old, women and children—and plunder their possessions on a single day, the thirteenth day of Adar, the twelfth month.

Verse ConceptsMonth 12Killing Israelites

On the twenty-third day of the third month (that is, the month Sivan), the royal scribes were summoned. Everything was written exactly as Mordecai ordered for the Jews, to the satraps, the governors, and the officials of the 127 provinces from India to Cush. The edict was written for each province in its own script, for each ethnic group in its own language, and to the Jews in their own script and language.

Verse ConceptsAfricaMonth 3A Hundred And SomeAlphabet

The king’s edict gave the Jews in each and every city the right to assemble and defend themselves, to destroy, kill, and annihilate every ethnic and provincial army hostile to them, including women and children, and to take their possessions as spoils of war.

Verse ConceptsPurimRules About Booty

In each of King Ahasuerus’s provinces the Jews assembled in their cities to attack those who intended to harm them. Not a single person could withstand them; terror of them fell on every nationality.

Verse ConceptsFearing Other People

the Jews bound themselves, their descendants, and all who joined with them to a commitment that they would not fail to celebrate these two days each and every year according to the written instructions and according to the time appointed.

Verse ConceptsPurim

His sons used to take turns having banquets at their homes. They would send an invitation to their three sisters to eat and drink with them.

Verse ConceptsFeastingBanquets, ActivitiesInvitationsLeisure, And PastimesAmusementsCelebrationcelebrating

Now when Job’s three friends—Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite—heard about all this adversity that had happened to him, each of them came from his home. They met together to go and sympathize with him and comfort him.

Verse ConceptsBad FriendsGood FriendsLove, For One AnotherSympathyVisitingComfort, Of FriendsCondolenceVisiting Of The SickVisitationThree MenMeeting PeopleBest FriendsLosing A FriendLosing FriendsTrue Friends

When they looked from a distance, they could barely recognize him. They wept aloud, and each man tore his robe and threw dust into the air and on his head.

Verse ConceptsDust, Figurative UseRobesSprinklingTearing Of ClothesWeepingSeeing At A DistanceDust On The HeadNot Recognising PeopleThose Who Tore Clothes

All his brothers, sisters, and former acquaintances came to his house and dined with him in his house. They sympathized with him and comforted him concerning all the adversity the Lord had brought on him. Each one gave him a qesitah and a gold earring.

Verse ConceptsGod, Goodness OfGoldOrnamentsRingsSistersSuffering, Encouragements InVisitingComfort, Of FriendsPresentsJewelleryLarge Denominations

“I will mention those who know Me:
Rahab, Babylon, Philistia, Tyre, and Cush—
each one was born there.”

Verse ConceptsAfrica

Come, let’s drink deeply of lovemaking until morning.
Let’s feast on each other’s love!

Verse ConceptsdrinkingSearchingDaybreakUntil DaybreakLoveloversloving

All of them are skilled with swords
and trained in warfare.
Each has his sword at his side
to guard against the terror of the night.

Your teeth are like a flock of newly shorn sheep
coming up from washing,
each one having a twin,
and not one missing.

Your teeth are like a flock of ewes
coming up from washing,
each one having a twin,
and not one missing.

Solomon owned a vineyard in Baal-hamon.
He leased the vineyard to tenants.
Each was to bring for his fruit
1,000 pieces of silver.

Seraphim were standing above Him; each one had six wings: with two he covered his face, with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew.

Verse ConceptsCoveringBodySeraphimTheophanyWingsSix ThingsAngel's WingsTwo Of Body PartsThose FlyingCherubimflying

They carve meat on the right,
but they are still hungry;
they have eaten on the left,
but they are still not satisfied.
Each one eats the flesh of his own arm.

Verse ConceptsStomachs

They will be horrified;
pain and agony will seize them;
they will be in anguish like a woman in labor.
They will look at each other,
their faces flushed with fear.

Verse ConceptsChildbirthPunishment, Nature OfTravailLabour Pains

Like wandering gazelles
and like sheep without a shepherd,
each one will turn to his own people,
each one will flee to his own land.

Verse ConceptsHuntingWatchfulness, DivineScattered Like SheepDeer Etc.Deerwandering

All the kings of the nations
lie in splendor, each in his own tomb.

Verse ConceptsKings And Pride

I will provoke Egypt against Egypt;
each will fight against his brother
and each against his friend,
city against city, kingdom against kingdom.

Verse ConceptsChaosAnarchyHorrors Of WarCivil War

For on that day, every one of you will reject the silver and gold idols that your own hands have sinfully made.

Verse ConceptsGoldThrowing AwayAbandoning Idols

Each will be like a shelter from the wind,
a refuge from the rain,
like streams of water in a dry land
and the shade of a massive rock in an arid land.

Verse ConceptsRocksShadowsStormsThirstWindGod Being Our Hiding PlacePeople As RocksNo WindsBrooksshelterhidingThe Storms Of Life

The sand partridge will make her nest there;
she will lay and hatch her eggs
and will gather her brood under her shadow.
Indeed, the birds of prey will gather there,
each with its mate.

Verse ConceptsNestsWingsVulturesFalcons

“Who will you compare Me or make Me equal to?
Who will you measure Me with,
so that we should be like each other?

Verse ConceptsLikeningComparisonsBeyond CompareLikening God

This is what they are to you—
those who have wearied you
and have traded with you from your youth—
each wanders on his own way;
no one can save you.

Verse ConceptsNo One Can SaveDirection

The One who vindicates Me is near;
who will contend with Me?
Let us confront each other.
Who has a case against Me?
Let him come near Me!

Verse ConceptsGod, Present EverywhereGod, Righteousness OfSalvation, Nature OfNearness To GodGod Vindicatesaccusationsvindication

I will give them, in My house and within My walls,
a memorial and a name
better than sons and daughters.
I will give each of them an everlasting name
that will never be cut off.

Verse ConceptsMemorials For PeopleA New Name

Indeed, I am about to summon all the clans and kingdoms of the north.”

This is the Lord’s declaration.

They will come, and each king will set up his throne
at the entrance to Jerusalem’s gates.
They will attack all her surrounding walls
and all the other cities of Judah.

Verse ConceptsGatesThroneSitting In The GatewayAttacks On Jerusalem Foretold

They are well-fed, eager stallions,
each neighing after someone else’s wife.

Verse ConceptsNeighing And BrayingTransferring Wives

Shepherds and their flocks will come against her;
they will pitch their tents all around her.
Each will pasture his own portion.

Verse ConceptsShepherds, As Kings And Leaders

Each one betrays his friend;
no one tells the truth.
They have taught their tongues to speak lies;
they wear themselves out doing wrong.

Verse ConceptsManipulationMen DeceivingFriendsFriendship And TrustDeceptionLying And Deceitlieing

Yet they would not obey or pay attention; each one followed the stubbornness of his evil heart. So I brought on them all the curses of this covenant, because they had not done what I commanded them to do.”

Verse ConceptsHardness Of HeartStubbornness, Consequences OfStubbornnessRefusing To Hear

After I have uprooted them, I will once again have compassion on them and return each one to his inheritance and to his land.

Verse ConceptsGod, Compassion OfRestoring Nations

I will smash them against each other, fathers and sons alike”—this is the Lord’s declaration. “I will allow no mercy, pity, or compassion to keep Me from destroying them.”

Verse ConceptsCruelty, God's attitude toGod Beating PeopleGod Without Mercy

You did more evil than your fathers. Look, each one of you was following the stubbornness of his evil heart, not obeying Me.

Verse ConceptsHardened HeartsHardness Of HeartHeart, Fallen And RedeemedDeteriorationimagination

So now, say to the men of Judah and to the residents of Jerusalem: This is what the Lord says: I am about to bring harm to you and make plans against you. Turn now, each from your evil way, and correct your ways and your deeds.

Verse ConceptsConversion, nature ofPlansReformationGod Will Bring Harm

But they will say, ‘It’s hopeless. We will continue to follow our plans, and each of us will continue to act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.’”

Verse ConceptsFools, Characteristics OfHardened Heartsevil, origins ofHardness Of HeartHeart, Fallen And RedeemedPlansEvil DevicesGod's PlanGods PlanGod's Plan For Usimagination

I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and their daughters, and they will eat each other’s flesh in the siege and distress that their enemies, those who want to take their life, inflict on them.

Verse ConceptsBad ChildrenCannibalismAttacks On Jerusalem Foretold

I will appoint destroyers against you,
each with his weapons.
They will cut down the choicest of your cedars
and throw them into the fire.

Verse ConceptsFelling TreesThose Who DestroyBurning Plants

Therefore, take note! I am against the prophets”—the Lord’s declaration—“who steal My words from each other.

Verse ConceptsFalse Prophets DenouncedDo Not Stealplagiarism

This is what each man is to say to his friend and to his brother, ‘What has the Lord answered?’ or ‘What has the Lord spoken?’

Verse ConceptsGod Answered

But no longer refer to the burden of the Lord, for each man’s word becomes his burden and you pervert the words of the living God, the Lord of Hosts, our God.

Verse ConceptsGod, Living And Self sustaining

He announced, ‘Turn, each of you, from your evil way of life and from your evil deeds. Live in the land the Lord gave to you and your ancestors long ago and forever.

Verse ConceptsConversion, nature ofEternal PossessionTurning From EvilRefusing To HearGod Gave The Landimprovement

Perhaps they will listen and return—each from his evil way of life—so that I might relent concerning the disaster that I plan to do to them because of the evil of their deeds.

Verse ConceptsFreedom, Of The WillPlansRepentance, Importance OfRepentance, Nature OfTurning From EvilGod Changing His MindGod Turned Back From Harming ThemPaying Attention To God

Rather, each will die for his own wrongdoing. Anyone who eats sour grapes—his own teeth will be set on edge.

Verse ConceptsResponsibility, To GodPersonal Responsibility

the One great in counsel and mighty in deed, whose eyes are on all the ways of the sons of men in order to give to each person according to his ways and the result of his deeds.

Verse ConceptsGod, Greatness Ofdiscipline, divineReward, DivineGod, All knowingGod Seeing All PeopleGod's CounselMighty OneRepaid For Deeds

so each man would free his male and female Hebrew slaves and no one would enslave his Judean brother.

Verse ConceptsRegulations For Men And Women

At the end of seven years, each of you must free his Hebrew brother who sold himself to you. He may serve you six years, but then you must send him out free from you. But your ancestors did not obey Me or pay any attention.

Verse ConceptsListeningSabbatical YearYearsCancellation Of DeptSix YearsSeven YearsPeople Freeing Slavesfreeliberation

Today you repented and did what pleased Me, each of you proclaiming freedom for his neighbor. You made a covenant before Me at the temple called by My name.

Verse ConceptsPeople Freeing Slaves

But you have changed your minds and profaned My name. Each has taken back his male and female slaves who had been freed to go wherever they wanted, and you have again subjugated them to be your slaves.

Verse ConceptsIrreverencePeople Changing Their MindsMaking Slaves

“Therefore, this is what the Lord says: You have not obeyed Me by proclaiming freedom, each man for his brother and for his neighbor. I hereby proclaim freedom for you”—this is the Lord’s declaration—“to the sword, to plague, and to famine! I will make you a horror to all the earth’s kingdoms.

Verse ConceptsIronyPlaguesProclaimingFamine Coming From GodEvil And FreedomMade A Horror

Time and time again I have sent you all My servants the prophets, proclaiming: Turn, each one from his evil way of life, and correct your actions. Stop following other gods to serve them. Live in the land that I gave you and your ancestors. But you would not pay attention or obey Me.

Verse ConceptsConvincingConversion, God's demands forIndifferenceListeningMonotheismProphets, Role OfReformationRenunciationRepentance, Importance OfSin, God's Remedy ForThe Call Of GodThose Who Rose EarlyDifferent GodsDoing RepeatedlyDo Not Have Other gods

Perhaps when the house of Judah hears about all the disaster I am planning to bring on them, each one of them will turn from his evil way. Then I will forgive their wrongdoing and their sin.”

Verse ConceptsAssurance, nature ofPlansGod Will Bring HarmGod Will Forgive

Perhaps their petition will come before the Lord, and each one will turn from his evil way, for the anger and fury that the Lord has pronounced against this people are great.”

Verse ConceptsPrayer, Described AsGod Answers PrayerFree Moral AgencyAnger And Forgivenesssupplicationpetition

When they had heard all the words, they turned to each other in fear and said to Baruch, “We must surely tell the king all these things.”

Verse ConceptsFearing God's Word

Indeed, if you were to strike down the entire Chaldean army that is fighting with you, and there remained among them only the badly wounded men, each in his tent, they would get up and burn this city down.”

Verse ConceptsdefeatBurning Jerusalem

So King Zedekiah gave orders, and Jeremiah was placed in the guard’s courtyard. He was given a loaf of bread each day from the baker’s street until all the bread was gone from the city. So Jeremiah remained in the guard’s courtyard.

Verse ConceptsBread, As FoodBakersBakingProphets, Lives OfRoadsPrisonsOnce A Day

Why have your strong ones been swept away?
Each has not stood,
for the Lord has thrust him down.

He continues to stumble.
Indeed, each falls over the other.
They say, “Get up! Let’s return to our people
and to the land of our birth,
away from the sword that oppresses.”

Verse ConceptsPeople StumblingSaying Repeatedly

Look, I am about to bring terror on you
this is the declaration of
the Lord God of Hosts—
from all those around you.
You will be banished, each man headlong,
with no one to gather up the fugitives.

Verse ConceptsPeople Appalled

Cut off the sower from Babylon
as well as him who wields the sickle at harvest time.
Because of the oppressor’s sword,
each will turn to his own people,
each will flee to his own land.

Verse ConceptsBabylonSicklesNot SowingNot Reaping What You Sow

Leave Babylon;
save your lives, each of you!
Don’t perish because of her guilt.
For this is the time of the Lord’s vengeance—
He will pay her what she deserves.

Verse ConceptsReturn From BabylonRetributionWagesEvil AssociationsGod Executes VengeanceThe judgment of babylonRevenge

We tried to heal Babylon,
but she could not be healed.
Abandon her!
Let each of us go to his own land,
for her judgment extends to the sky
and reaches as far as the clouds.

Verse ConceptsClouds, Natural UseDecadencePeople Abandoning PeopleNo HealingThe judgment of babylonHealing And Comfort

Come out from among her, My people!
Save your lives, each of you,
from the Lord’s burning anger.

Verse ConceptsParticipation, In SinComing Out From EvilRemoving People From Your Life

Each capital had 96 pomegranates all around it. All the pomegranates around the latticework numbered 100.

Verse ConceptsThe Number NinetyOne HundredNineties

As for his allowance, a regular allowance was given to him by the king of Babylon, a portion for each day until the day of his death, for the rest of his life.

Verse ConceptsLifelongOnce A DayNutrition

Their wings were touching. The creatures did not turn as they moved; each one went straight ahead.

Verse ConceptsNot Turning AsideAngel's WingsGoing ForwardTouching Holy Things

The form of each of their faces was that of a man, and each of the four had the face of a lion on the right, the face of an ox on the left, and the face of an eagle.

Verse ConceptsHeavenly FacesRight SidesEaglesCreatures Like LionsLike MenLeft Hand Side

That is what their faces were like. Their wings were spread upward; each had two wings touching that of another and two wings covering its body.

Verse ConceptsBodyCovering The BodyAngel's WingsTouching Holy ThingsTwo Of Body Partsknots

Each creature went straight ahead. Wherever the Spirit wanted to go, they went without turning as they moved.

Verse ConceptsMoving ForwardNot Turning AsideGoing Forward

When I looked at the living creatures, there was one wheel on the ground beside each creature that had four faces.

Their rims were large and frightening. Each of their four rims were full of eyes all around.

Verse ConceptsEyes In ProphecyFear Of Other Things

And under the expanse their wings extended one toward another. Each of them also had two wings covering their bodies.

Verse ConceptsCovering The BodyStraight ThingsAngel's Wings

with the sound of the living creatures’ wings brushing against each other and the sound of the wheels beside them, a great rumbling sound.

Verse ConceptsWingsWheelsAngel's WingsTouching Holy ThingsSound

When you have completed these days, lie down again, but on your right side, and bear the iniquity of the house of Judah. I have assigned you 40 days, a day for each year.

Verse ConceptsForty DaysDoing Things TwiceOne DayMore Than One Month40 To 50 YearsCarrying SinOther Right PartsGod's People Sinning

The food you eat each day will be eight ounces by weight; you will eat it from time to time.

Verse ConceptsWeights Of Other Thingsweight

The survivors among them will escape
and live on the mountains
like doves of the valley,
all of them moaning,
each over his own iniquity.

Verse ConceptsdovesEscaping EvilOthers Mourning

Seventy elders from the house of Israel were standing before them, with Jaazaniah son of Shaphan standing among them. Each had a firepan in his hand, and a fragrant cloud of incense was rising up.

Verse ConceptsCensersIncense Offered AmissSeventies

Then He said to me, “Son of man, do you see what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the darkness, each at the shrine of his idol? For they are saying, ‘The Lord does not see us. The Lord has abandoned the land.’”

Verse ConceptsFalse ConfidenceShrinesSecret SinsConcealment, Of SinGod Not SeeingActing In SecretLooking And SeeingScofferselders

Then He called to me directly with a loud voice, “Come near, executioners of the city, each of you with a destructive weapon in his hand.”

Verse ConceptsExecutionersThose Who DestroyGod's VoiceGod Will Kill His People

And I saw six men coming from the direction of the Upper Gate, which faces north, each with a war club in his hand. There was another man among them, clothed in linen, with writing equipment at his side. They came and stood beside the bronze altar.

Verse ConceptsSix PeopleComing To GatesFacing NorthWriting On ObjectsWeapons Of GodSetting Up The Bronze AltarDeath Penalty For Killing

I looked, and there were four wheels beside the cherubim, one wheel beside each cherub. The luster of the wheels was like the gleam of beryl.

Verse ConceptsJewelsPrecious StonesFour SupportsWheelsSparklingCherubim

Each one had four faces: the first face was that of a cherub, the second that of a man, the third that of a lion, and the fourth that of an eagle.

Verse ConceptsHeavenly FacesEaglesCreatures Like LionsFour Other ThingsLike MenCherubim

Each had four faces and each had four wings, with the form of human hands under their wings.

Verse ConceptsAngels HandsHeavenly FacesAngel's WingsPeople Are The SameFour Other ThingsLike Men

Their faces looked like the same faces I had seen by the Chebar Canal. Each creature went straight ahead.

Verse ConceptsHeavenly FacesNot Turning Aside

“Therefore, house of Israel, I will judge each one of you according to his ways.” This is the declaration of the Lord God. “Repent and turn from all your transgressions, so they will not be a stumbling block that causes your punishment.

Verse ConceptsConversion, nature ofResponsibility, To GodTurning From EvilDo Not HinderJudging Others Actions

I also said to them: Each of you must throw away the detestable things that are before your eyes and not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt. I am Yahweh your God.

Verse ConceptsAbominations, Judgments OfAbominations, Sin IsSending Things AwayEvil EyesPollution ForbiddenAvoiding IdolatryI Will Be Their God

“As for you, house of Israel, this is what the Lord God says: Go and serve your idols, each of you. But afterward you will surely listen to Me, and you will no longer defile My holy name with your gifts and idols.

Verse ConceptsGiftsIrreverenceProfanityProfaning God's NameNot Worshipping IdolsPaying Attention To GodMisusing God's Name